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Peter Kollman Graduate Award in Supercomputing

Applications are open for the Peter Kollman Graduate Award in Supercomputing, given by the ACS Division of Computers in
Chemistry and sponsored by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA),
to be awarded at the Fall 2017 Washington DC ACS National Meeting.

The ACS Peter Kollman Graduate Award in Supercomputing was created to provide supercomputer resources to outstanding students in
the early stages of their graduate career, particularly for projects
that need high performance computing resources for their
chemistry-related project. Those eligible for the award are graduate
students in good standing who are carrying out research in the broadly
defined area of computational chemistry. Winners (or their adviser, if
necessary) will receive an allocation on the Blue Waters resource at NCSA to
support the project. For more information about NCSA, please visit http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/.

Awardees will be chosen on the basis of: the significance of
the project plan, potential impact on the project of additional
supercomputer resources, qualifications of the student, and the
strength of the supporting letter and other materials. Projects with
modest computational needs that can be performed on individual
machines or small clusters will likely not be competitive.

Application
requirements include an extended abstract of the work (no more than 1
page), a two page CV, a brief letter of support from the research
advisor, and a 1 page detailed computational plan indicating:
computational resources already available for the project, the types
of calculations to be performed, availability of software,
justification of number and length of runs, parallel scaling data, and
an estimate of the total time needed. The maximum award size will be 3,125 node hours, using XE or XK nodes or a combination. The allocation will have a during of 6 months maximum.

Submit the application to
acs.comp.awards_AT_gmail.com as a SINGLE pdf or text file, and include
your last name as the start of the file name. There is a limit of one
Kollman Award application per research lab (PI). Previous
winners are not eligible. Winners are announced at the COMP Division poster session along with other winners of COMP Division awards.

The deadline for completing all 3 of these items is MIDNIGHT EASTERN TIME, March 20,2017

Winners are encouraged but not required to present their work within
the COMP program at the meeting, either in oral or poster format. If
you want to present your work in an oral or poster presentation, you
must also submit your abstract using the ACS MAPSsystem, prior to the ACS deadline. Application for the supercomputing award does not
constitute an application for a presentation.

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